Armand Duplantis, the world’s best pole jumper, has shared his experiences with a tight diet he follows during the race season.
Armand Duplantisone of the brightest star athletes in athletics, has opened for SVT Own nutritional habits.
The aim of the Swedish diet is to pursue perfection in the pole vault and to break new world records. However, the hunger regimen has its own challenges.
After last year’s internal season, Duplantis said he had realized the importance of weight and changed his diet with his mother and physics coach Helena through. Duplantis’s mother is a trained nutritionist.
In two months, the super -vault super -tailed weight from 80 kg to 76.
In his first outdoor competition in Xiamen, China, at the end of April last year, he immediately set a world record of 624.
In the interview, Duplantis says he is trying to find a balance with his diet because it is not always possible to follow it strictly. He says he has felt weaker than the usual after last summer’s Olympics and therefore finds it important to reach balance.
– There’s no fun with hunger cure. And it’s boring and difficult. I don’t think it’s a good idea to try to follow the diet for too long, says Duplantis, who began to eat normally after the Olympics.
Duplantis describes his daily diet during the race season as simple and repeated: lettuce for lunch, and chicken or salmon with quinoa and vegetables for dinner.
However, “Mondo” admits that he allows himself to be sometimes deep -fried chicken or other “heavy food”, especially when he wants to celebrate after the evening races.
Although there are strict challenges in the diet, Duplantis feels that Olympic gold and world records make sacrifices worth it.